Artificial-stone facing for buildings.



Pa tented July 29, I902.

T. KELLY & F. c. SABAZIN, ARTIFICIAL STONE FACING FOR BUILDINGS.

(Application filed May 8, 1902.)

(No Model.)

Witness NtTED STATES- PATENT @FFIC'E.

THOMAS KELLY AND FRANK O. S ARAZIN, OF WEST SUPERIOR, IVISCONSIN.

ARTIFICIAL-STONE FACING FOR' BUILDINGS.

:SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters .Batent No 705,846, dated July 29, 19oz. Application filed May 3. 1902. Serial No. 105,726. (No specimens.)

T0 all/ uholvt it may-concern.-

Be it known that we, THOMAS KELLY and FRANK 0. SARAZIN, citizens of the United States,residing atWest Superior,inthe county of Douglas .and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Artificial-Stone Facings for Buildings; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the The invention is further designed to reduce the cost of converting such wooden structures into ones having stone facings, and therefore resides in the economical construction and arrangement of parts which further this desideratum. Our invention further resides in the nove details of construction and combination of. parts to be fully described in the following .the'drawings, and receives the slabs or blocks at while in a plastic state.

specification and then set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating our invention as applied to a wooden structure, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a building, showing the front thereof provided with the usual weather-boarding and the side thereof as being equipped with our improved stone facing, the side wall being broken away and partly in section to illustrate the manner of application; and Fig. 2 is a vertical sec-1 tional view of the side wall.

WVe propose to apply our stone facing to buildings without removing or otherwise disturbing the usual weather-boarding, and to this end we apply, usually at about one foot apart, more or less, a series of vertical strips or laths, which extend from the vertical extremities of the wall. This is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, being designated by the numeral 1, and may also be seen in Fig. 2, these vertical strips or laths having a series of transverse or horizontal laths or strips secured thereto, preferably by nailing. These transverselaths or strips are usually spaced apart at distances equal to about one inch and are represented by the numerals 2, A

wall having been treated by-the aforesaid laths'in the manner specified is then ready to receive the plastic material, which preferablyconsists of one-half patent plaster of any of the Well-known kinds, one-half cement and sand, thoroughly mixed with a small proportion of wood and asbestos fiber in order to strengthen the plastic composition, it being a well-known fact that cement itself will not adhere to wood. In the application of this plastic compound it is necessary and prerequisite to the perfect formation "of the artifi- 'cial wall that the composition should not only entirely cover the outer surfaces of the laths running in a transverse direction, but that the composition should entirely inclose the laths, and the latter may thus be said to form keys, assuring the perfect adherence of the plastic compound to the walls of the building. It should also be noted that the plastic compound is applied in sufficient quantity to assure the same adhering to the weatherboarding, which by experience we have found provides a most substantial and secure foot- ;ing or base for the slabs or blocks.

The plastic compoundis indicated at 3, in

The latter may be readily lined up by depressing the same or iadding an additional quantity of plastic com- .formed at the meeting edges of the same,

still we preferably dispense with this latter entirely and place the slabs or blocks edge to edge, effecting a material saving in time as well as material, the base or footing of plastic compound'serving to exclude all moisture or other changes in climatic conditions, as will be obvious.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device of the type set forth, the combination with the wall or the like, of a series of Vertical laths secured thereto and a series of horizontal laths secured to the Vertical laths, and a plastic composition applied to the said laths and completely inclosing the horizontal laths, with a series of slabs applied to the said plastic composition, while the latter is in a plastic state, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the type set forth, the combination with the wall or the like, of a series of suitably-spaced vertical laths secured to the said wall, and a series of suitably-spaced horizontal laths carried by the vertical laths, with a plastic composition applied to the said series of laths and engaging the said wall, the plastic composition entirely surrounding the horizontal laths and receiving a series of slabs on its outer surface, the slabs being socured solely by contact with the plastic composition, and having their edges in abutting engagement, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we afiix'our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS KELLY. FRANK o. SARAZIN.

Witnesses:

T. L. MoINTosH, P. R. HOGAN. 

